Category: Apple

Eric Mack:

Just to be clear on what I’m saying, my best educated guesses are that we will see a new iPhone this summer, and it will be an iPhone 5S with mostly iterative updates, a choice of colors, and perhaps the lower-cost model of the latest rumors. But the real question is: then what?

My gut tells me the iPhone as we know it will be done at that point. I have a hunch there will never be an iPhone 6, because Apple will be forced to move into a significantly different form factor to keep people interested and compete with the movement toward bigger phablet-like thingies and emerging wearable electronics (lots of us have fat thumbs, after all). Or, there will be an iPhone 6 and it will disappoint.

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James Galbraith:

Apple’s largest all-in-one desktop computer, the 27-inch iMac, was recently updated with a long list of under-the-hood changes, but it’s the strikingly thin design that people notice first. And while the 5mm edge on the new iMac is certainly impressive, you can’t help but wonder if the tradeoffs Apple made for the new design are worth it.

While the 27-inch model does include user-upgradable RAM, Galbraith bemoans the loss of the internal optical drive and Firewire ports. That said, he likes the less reflective screen, speed, speakers, FaceTime camera and the Fusion Drive.

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Chris Foresman at Ars Technica:

Apple isn’t giving up on Thunderbolt anytime soon. All of its computers come with at least one Thunderbolt port—save the Mac Pro, which Apple CEO Tim Cook has all but promised would be upgraded in 2013. The latest Retina MacBook Pros include two Thunderbolt ports. And it appears that its Thunderbolt Display is due for a refresh sometime soon.

Though Thunderbolt hasn’t exactly taken the Windows PC world by storm, several motherboard makers now offer options for built-in or add-on Thunderbolt support. And notebook makers are adding Thunderbolt as well—Intel’s booth this year featured a classy-looking HP Envy Spectre Ultrabook for demonstration purposes.

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This isn’t the first time a book has popped up leaking a software announcement from Apple. I used Aperture 3 for ages, but last year started storing all my photos on Dropbox. While time will tell if I ever go back to Aperture, there’s no denying the current app is feeling forgotten.

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I’m 100 percent sure Steve Jobs would yell at whoever decided to put a QR code on this thing.

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Steve Jobs’ iPhone keynote remains one of the best he ever gave. Hard to believe this was six years ago.

(Here’s the second half.)

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The 21.5-inch machines are 7–10 days out, while the big ones don’t ship again for 3–4 weeks. Something is wrong, and I hope the company can get it straightened out.

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Richard Saintvilus, at Forbes.com:

However, for the company to truly move forward as a tech power, Apple should hang-up on the iPhone after one more iteration – presumably the iPhone 6. You might disagree. Granted, the phone is still selling well. However, aside from a different chip and larger screen, the change from the 4S to iPhone 5 was not that significant.

Where should Apple go, after killing off one of the most profitable products in modern history?

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If you have a bunch of Markdown documents floating around your Mac, you should look at this plugin for Finder’s QuickLook feature.

via Matt Gemmell

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Arnold Kim:

The 1TB Fusion Drive add-on is a $250 option and was previously only offered on the high end 21.5“ iMac, high end Mac mini and 27” iMacs.

While I can’t shake the feeling that Fusion Drive is a stopgap until pure SSD setups are reasonable for most people, I’m glad to see Apple expanding the options across the product matrix.

Now, Apple, give that 21.5" machine a RAM door, and we’ll be in business.

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Christopher MacManus at CNET:

A wee bit of bad news for Apple’s jailbreak community right on the eve of the New Year: Installous, a major portal for pirated paid apps from Apple’s App Store, won’t be around anymore.

I’m already weeping. Those poor jailbreakers!

In my personal experiences with the app, I could often download the latest iOS applications and games for free from a variety of sources within mere seconds. After downloading, you could then install the app on your iDevice as if you purchased it from Apple’s App Store. Additionally, during its prime, it wasn’t unrealistic to expect expensive App Store apps hitting Installous mere hours after release.

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Steve Jobs, on the eMate 300, in September 1997:

The Emate has a bright future - and it is for this reason that I am pulling it back into Apple - which has the resources to market and sell it much more broadly. You can imagine that a small spin-off company would not have such a large sales force or marketing budget. With the appropriate investments in sales and marketing, we hope that the Emate can become a great success.

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